Pardew is­sued with march­ing or­ders af­ter eight straight de­feats

Alan Pardew paid the price for a club record eight suc­ces­sive Pre­mier League de­feats by leav­ing his man­age­rial role at West Bromwich Albion by mu­tual con­sent yes­ter­day.

The 56-year-old had only been at the club for four months af­ter re­plac­ing Tony Pulis but failed to re­vive their for­tunes and he leaves them bot­tom of the ta­ble 10 points adrift of safety with just six games re­main­ing.

Three of those matches are against Cham­pi­ons Leaguechas­ing trio Manch­ester United, Liver­pool and Tot­ten­ham.

“West Bromwich Albion and Alan Pardew have agreed to mu­tu­ally part com­pany to­day fol­low­ing dis­cus­sions be­tween both par­ties,” read a club state­ment on their web­site.

“As­sis­tant Head Coach John Carver will also be leav­ing.

“The club would like to thank Alan and John for their ef­forts and wish them well in their fu­ture en­deav­ours.

Good­man’s re­place­ment Martin Jenk­ins found the fi­nances in such a poor state that he had to or­ga­nize the club’s first over­draft in a decade.

“I’ve come back (he had been chief ex­ec­u­tive for 14 years be­fore leav­ing at the end of 2016) and I’m shocked at what I have found in some of the de­ci­sions that have been made,” he told The Times last week.

“I’ve come back and can as­sure you that we are right at our limit on STCC (short-term cost con­trol). There is no more money for (play­ers) wages.”

West Brom are in their eighth suc­ces­sive Pre­mier League sea­son but have taken only 20 points from their 32 matches this cam­paign. For­mer Hull and Wat­ford man­ager Marco Silva is the book­ies’ early fa­vorite to take over the role.